BACCA

(Lat.), n. f. Ba*k(baSk)’ka’, Gr., xdxxos. Fr., baie. Ger., Beere. It., bacca, baja, coccola. Sp., bay a. 1. A berry: a succulent, pulpy fruit containing seeds scattered through its substance. 2. A term applied by Schreber to the fruit'of the Characeæ, [B, 19, 198.) Bacese Bermudez (seu bermndenses). Syn.: sanariæ nuculæ. Bermuda-berries, soap-berries; the fruit of the Sapindus saponaria ey [L, 84, 104, 119.]—I3. clausa. An irenisecnt berry. [B, 198.]—I8. compos it a. Ger., zusammengesetzte Beere. A fruit composed of several pesky drupaceous carpels, separate at first, afterward more or le united. [B, 198.]—B. corticata. A berry provided with a rind (e, g., an orange). [B, 19.)—Bacewe domestic. The fruit of Rhamnus cathartic a. [B; 180.]—Baccæ garou. The fruit of Daphne gnidium. [B, 180.] —B, in an is. An ean berry, 7. e., one not filled with pulp. [B, 198.]—IB. infer a. A berry placed inferiorly with reference to thé calyx and adnate to the latter. [B, 198.|—Bacce levantine. Seé Baccæ orient a les.—BB. liber a. See B. super a.—Bacew no landicæ. The fruit of Rubus arctic us. [B, 119.]--Baceæ orie tales, Baccæ piscator iæ. The cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta coccutus). [B, 180; L, 119.)—B. pyrenata. A berry, or succulent fruit, with 2 or more hard putamina; distinguished from a drupe, which has but a single putamen. [B, 198.)—Bacez rhabarbarime. The fruit of Berberis vulgar is.’ [B, 180.)—B. sice a. A fruit which, when unripe, is pulpy and succulent, but which becomes dry when ripe. ie B. spine cervinæ. [Ger. aa) See Baccæ domestice.—B. spuria. A false berry; a succulen fruit which is not a true berry (e. g., the strawberry). According to Ménch, a succulent fruit with loculi and having the seeds dis- A popular name for the 801.] P [Roxburgh A medicine of unknown [B, 88.] posed in them according to some order of arrangement. [B, 19, 121.)—B. super a. A berry superior to the calyx and free from it. [B, 198.)—B. vera. A berry in the botanical sense; according to Mônch, a fleshy fruit without loculi and having the seeds scattered through it without any apparent order of arrangement. [B, 121.]— Bacew Vermudæ. See Baccæ Bermudæ.